Thanks Kacheong for the explanation. Now I think I have a very good understanding of this question.
On 7/19/07, Kacheong Poon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tuma Wang wrote: > > > I see. So a common use it, when I do close(), FIN is sent, and the > > > To use the half-closed feature, shutdown() needs to > be used. After a close(), the socket cannot be used > to read anything. > > > > peer will get an EOL when it read(). When getting the EOF, the peer > > knows about the "half-close" state, and then it can either send data > > or also call close(). Is it right? > > > Right. It is the application which decides what to do. > > > > So "without the knowledge of the other end" means "the other side > > doesn't know my crash here"? And we say the other side (not the side > > that crashes) is in "half-open"? > > > Right. > > > > -- > > K. Poon. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
